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On Being a Grandmother

Everyone said just wait—being a grandmother is the most wonderful thing in the world. I thought to myself: yeah, yeah…whatever!…

Connie McPeak Green

News, March 2018

News of Friends: Yearly Meetings newsletter project; Quaker podcasts; Peacemaking panel; Appointment.

December 2016: A Young Friends Bookshelf

Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay

By Susan Hood, illustrated by Sally Wern Comport. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2016. 40 pages. $17.99/hardcover; $10.99/eBook.…

Reviewed by Vickie LeCroy

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What Once Was Can Be Again

Working on a shared vision of equality and a just peace between Palestinians and Israelis.

Poetry

A Long Way To Run In This Cruelest of Months

Phidippides / Two thousand and some years ago / ran all alone / on his forty thousand meter footfall from the fields of Marathon.

Robert E. Young

November 2015 Books

Friends Journal Reviewer Survey

Our volunteer reviewers share some of their all-time favorite books for Quakers.

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Christmas Light

Photo by kwasny222 Last year I was not in the mood for the Friends’ holiday party, though it is usually…

Moving toward Environmental Action

Friends have a defining and mystical method for reaching personal decisions and taking action. Our practice of opening ourselves to…

Friends as Healers

Twenty Friends sit comfortably in a circle in the warming sunshine of Powell House retreat center. While some Friends gaze…

Bobbi and Curtis Bailin Buffy

Milestones: April 2014

Notices for Barbara M. Boggs, Olin M. Byerly, Eleanor Means Hull, Jack Kraushaar, Dimitri Mihalas, and Amy Hodel Weber.